Queen Elizabeth II has notched up some of landmarks in her report-breaking 70 years at the throne.
Longevity
Elizabeth has reigned for 70 years and almost 4 months — longer than every other monarch in British history. The preceding report changed into held via way of means of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who reigned for sixty three years, seven months and days till 1901.
At 96, Elizabeth is the oldest modern monarch and head of country withinside the world.
Only kings have dominated for longer: France’s Louis XIV — extra than seventy two years among 1643 and 1715 — and Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej — 70 years and 4 months, till his loss of life in October 2016.
Globetrotter
The queen has travelled to extra than a hundred nations considering the fact that 1952 — any other report for a British monarch — and made extra than a hundred and fifty visits to Commonwealth nations.
She has been to Canada 22 instances — extra than every other country. In Europe, she has visited France the most — thirteen instances — and speaks the language.
The Daily Telegraph calculated that she travelled the equal of forty two instances round the arena earlier than preventing distant places journeys in November 2015 elderly 89.
Her longest overseas experience lasted 168 days from November 1953 to May 1954 throughout which she visited thirteen nations.
Busy
As a 21-year-antique princess, Elizabeth pledged her lifestyles to the provider of the Commonwealth.
As queen, she has accomplished a few 21,000 engagements, given royal assent to 4,000 portions of legislation, and hosted 112 country visits of overseas heads of country.
Among the ones she hosted had been emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1954), Japan’s emperor Hirohito (1971), president Lech Walesa of Poland (1991) and US president Barack Obama (2011).
More than a hundred and eighty lawn events had been hosted at Buckingham Palace, attended via way of means of extra than 1.five million people.
Politics and religion
A overall of 14 British top ministers have served below the queen. Her first changed into Winston Churchill (1952-1955) and the contemporary is Boris Johnson, considering the fact that 2019.
She holds everyday non-public conferences together along with her top minister of the day, commonly at Buckingham Palace on a weekly basis.
Elizabeth II has met thirteen out of the closing 14 US presidents aside from Lyndon B Johnson. Her closing tourist from the White House changed into Joe Biden in 2021.
The queen is the ideal governor of the Church of England, a role relationship again to the introduction of the church below Henry VIII withinside the sixteenth century.
She has met 4 popes on professional visits — John XXIII (1961), John Paul II (1980, 1982 and 2000), Benedict XVI (2010) and Francis I (2014).
Cards
The queen has despatched a few 300,000 playing cards of congratulation to centenarians and extra than 900,000 to couples celebrating 60 years of marriage.
She changed into married for seventy three years — any other report for a British monarch. Her husband, Prince Philip, died elderly ninety nine in April closing year.
Portraits
The queen has posed for extra than two hundred photos for the reason that age of seven. Most had been painted in a conventional style. But Lucien Freud’s in 2001 proved controversial: one critic stated it made her majesty seem like one in all her corgi dogs.
Pioneer
In 1996, the queen have become the primary British monarch to go to mainland China. She changed into additionally the primary to deal with the House of Representatives in Washington.
She despatched her first e-mail on March 26, 1976 throughout a go to to a Ministry of Defence studies facility.
In 1997, she released the Buckingham Palace internet site and in 2014 despatched her first tweet. Three years ago, she made her debut on Instagram.
007
The queen is the best monarch to have jumped out of a helicopter with James Bond and parachuted into the outlet rite of the Olympics. Kind of.
She and her liked corgis made a cameo look on the 2012 London Games with 007 actor Daniel Craig, earlier than a stuntman made the leap.